UW Trustees Approve Personnel Items

March 11, 2013 — University of Wyoming trustees approved the following
personnel items during their business meeting Friday, March 8:

Faculty Appointments

College Engineering
and Applied Science

Jeffrey Clune as assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science. He received a B.A. (1999) in philosophy from the University of
Michigan, an M.A. (2005) in philosophy and a Ph.D. (2010) in computer
engineering from Michigan State University. Clune has had a postdoctoral
fellowship from Cornell University since 2010.

College of Health
Sciences

Donna Bliss as associate professor and director in the
Division of Social Work. She received a B.A. (1989) in psychology from the
University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.S.W. (1991) and a Ph.D. (2005) in social
work, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Bliss has been the M.S.W.
Program director at the University of Georgia since 2012.

Changes in Appointment

College of Education

John Kambutu named as head of the Department of Educational
Studies; Elizabeth Simpson ends her appointment as director of the Wyoming
Center for Excellence and Innovation in Distance Learning and Technology. She
will return to her appointment as associate professor in the Department of
Educational Studies.

Trustees also approved first-year tenure-track
reappointments and first-year extended-term track reappointments for faculty
and academic professionals. To see additional personnel items from the March 8 Board
of Trustees meeting, view the Trustees Report here.